Vancouver ride-for-hire startup scores part in EU driverless transportation experiment

A Vancouver-based tech startup that began life as a platform for arranging carpools is now on a team competing to design systems for an experiment in autonomously operated, on-demand transit services in Europe.
The Mount Pleasant-headquartered firm, called Spare, is part of a Norwegian/Canadian consortium selected as one of five competitors in a European Union-supported experiment to test fleets of automated buses in six different cities.
Spare CEO Kristoffer Vik Hansen said his firm was invited